"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp with an image from NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian ...

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

The two new stamps celebrate America's continued exploration of deep space with extremely high-definition images captured by ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...